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The number of people killed by floods and landslides in northern Tanzania has gone up to 57, with another 85 people injured, following torrential rain.
The number of people killed by floods and landslides in northern Tanzania has gone up to 57, with another 85 people injured, following torrential rain. Severe flooding caused by a combination of the El Nino and Indian Ocean dipole weather phenomena has killed hundreds of people in Kenya and Somalia and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes since seasonal rains began in October.
Search and rescue operations were underway in the Manyara region as authorities fear some bodies might be trapped in the mud, Manyara region commissioner Queen Sendiga told reporters late on Sunday.
President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who curtailed her participation in the COP28 climate summit in Dubai due to the catastrophe, revealed that the country lost 57 of its citizens in this disaster so far, with 85 still receiving medical care. This updated figure, released on Monday, surpasses the initial count of 47 casualties provided on Sunday.
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Till evening 85 injured persons were rescued who are continuing with the treatments and others have been discharged. Around 100 houses in the village of Katesh, Hanang district, were swallowed by a landslide, President Samia Suluhu Hassan said in a video message posted online by the Ministry of Health. Climate change is causing more intense and more frequent extreme weather events, according to climate scientists.
